CMSC 411 Tentative Schedule

Not Current Yet for 2001

Class Chap Comments
1 One Intro, Survival Skills, Benchmarks Units and Amdahl's Law Start Ch. 1 HW
2   Dreaded CPU Equation MIPS, MFLOPS and Machines  
3, 4 Two More Machine Details ISA and Assembly Language Start Ch. 2 HW
5,6 Three Intro to DLX ISA Intro DLX Pipeline Start Ch. 3 HW
7,8   Pipeline Hazards: Data, Structural Control Hazards
9,10 Multi-Cycle DLX Loop Unrolling, Rescheduling Start Ch. 4 HW
11 Control Hazards  More Control Hazards  
12,13   More Multi-Cycle DLX  and  More  
14, 15   Midterm: August 4, 2000
16,17 Four Scoreboard Algorithim Tomasulo Algorithm More Ch. 4 HW
18,19 Five Other Instruction Level Parallelism Memory Hierarchy Basics Start Ch 5 HW
20  
21,22 Improving Memory Performance Main and Virtual Memory
23    CPU and Memory CPI Effects
24 Seven Networks  Start Ch 7 HW--TBD
25, 26 Eight Multiprocessors Models Parallel Processor Models HW TBD
27, 28   Overview and Loose Ends Review  
29   Final Exam  August 24, 2000